NYK can offer Hartenstein 17m per whereas OKC can go to 23m. We'll see what happens. They might draft a center or make a trade during the season. Poetl might be an option for a trade later in the season too.
Interesting, I hadnt heard that about Hartenstein. I dont know either if he'd come off the bench, but he'd still be able to play plenty of minutes if he did, since he CAN share the court with Holmgren in some lineups. It's not like a Gafford-Lively situation where they have to be out there separately. And then you factor in the likelyhood of Chet...
I watched them a lot during the season. Teams just ignored him in the perimeter all year. They had enough talent to get away with it all season, until they met Dallas.
They wasted no time getting rid of him. The finals just ended 3 days ago.
Giddey wasn't their only problem, but he was a big one. They obviously need another big body or two.
I remember when GW was the pub's hero to everything.
Yep - loss of thousands of jobs
Banks closing
401k's etc loss of millions if not billions of retirement money
and oh yea that war where his dear ol' daddy was threatened.
Those were the good ol' days right pub's !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seems like he'd respect the players opinions more than Ham did who continually trotted out terrible lineups and left players clueless as to what they were supposed to be doing on the floor. (To the point they were outright mentioning it in media interviews.)
No one thinks Lakers are winning the championship next season anyway, right? He might...
They have cap space and are supposedly favorites to sign Hartenstein. But I'm not sure if he'd start or not. Would Chet play PF? I'm not sure if he wants to go to a team where he comes off the bench. But maybe if the price is right...
Yeah. They will have some pretty suffocating defensive lineups with Caruso, Dort, SGA and Chet out there at the same time.
I guess offensively the idea is SGA and Chet will be a good enough star tandem to play through and just put floor spacers around them. And I do think they have the potential to be an elite tandem depending on how quickly...
throwing a debate party this next week.
Bipartisan and demo's invited.
We will have a raffle, count how many times dumpster makes mistakes.
winner wins a tape of Biden doing trumps wife
When Don ald was in his early thirty's he helped a girl change her tire.
The girl ended up being the top porn star in the industry.
**He was well paid for his tire change.
And they still lost. Giddey was the scapegoat; if the issue was as big as you or others made it out to be then we should've expected a more dramatic result/effect. Because basketball is a little more complicated than that.
I will say that Caruso is a solid playmaker. However, he's more of a connective tissue passer whereas Giddey is a classic playmaker who can dribble the ball, get the defensive rebound and play the transition game, slow the pace, and creatively manufacture a shot for his team. I wonder if this puts more of a burden on Shai to create for others.
I watched OKC a lot this year. It was obvious they needed to get rid of Giddey. Teams left him wide open from 3 routinely. Nobody is worried about his broken set shot.
There is a reason why he only got 12 minutes per game vs Dallas. He was too much of a liability.
It's an interesting one. On paper, they should be better. But we've seen teams not live up to expectations before. Basketball is a careful balance at the team construction level. We saw how losing Jrue's POA defense and screen navigation hurt Milwaukee. OKC gets smaller, losing rebounding, and a creative playmaker. They'll be even more robotic in...
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